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Originally Posted by Kaitou Ace
Basically it relates to non gMail users, and the fact that google runs the emails through their servers for things like address/tracking number highlighting, and keywords for their ads. Not regarding to google reading your emails at all.
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It isn't about Google reading the emails, and storing data on gmail users, it's about Google reading the emails, and storing data on non-gmail users.
It doesn't matter if you decide not to use gmail anymore, as long as you send or receive emails from gmail accounts, Google still gets data on you.
What is strange here is what Google considers that the term "privacy" means to them. In the motion, it seems to go with an absolute definition. As long as another person (or software) is seeing the correspondence beside the sender and the recipient the correspondence isn't private.
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Originally Posted by jgaiser
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The article on thenextweb.com is trying to make some kind of point here:
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The case that Google is currently defending itself in is a class action lawsuit arguing that Gmail’s feature for scanning emails to target ads goes against wiretap laws. It’s technically accurate that Google used the quote in its legal defense, but using that fact to claim that Google has completely given up on user privacy is both sensational and disingenuous. The company is, after all, bound to its own privacy policy.
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but might have failed to notice that the privacy policy doesn't mention anything about email content, and therefore Google isn't bound by anything in regards to email content.
What I am curious about is what happens to emails that have a disclaimer such as:
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If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please notify the sender and delete it.
Any unauthorized copying, disclosure or distribution of this email or its attachment(s) is forbidden.
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